The Dingo for Biodiversity Project is a science and conservation initiative conducting research into the ecological role of dingoes. The project brings together ecologists and landholders to transition to predator-friendly practices, and monitors the ecological changes as dingo populations recover. We offer a new vision of conservation in which promoting dingoes replaces lethal control of introduced species for the enhancement of biodiversity.

The Dingo for Biodiversity Project is part of the Centre for Compassionate Conservation at the University of Technology Sydney.

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19th November 2018Feminist Ferals, an online conference talkDr Arian Wallach presenting a keynote talk in the fully online conference Feral. Her online talk explores why conservation has erased one of the Earth's most significant rewilding events in recent history: the rewilding of donkeys.

13th November 2018​Dr Arian Wallach in conversation with Jesse Mulligan on Radio New Zealand Killing for conservation "unnecessary"In New Zealand, millions of dollars are spent to kill rats, possum and other introduced species in the hope of recovering endemic birds. But Dr Arian Wallach from the University of Technology Sydney brings a fresh perspective from Australia to say that conservation killing is not necessary. Her voice is part of a growing discipline called "compassionate conservation." Listen here

27th September 2018The Atlantic feature essay on Dr Arian Wallach"I have come to the Evelyn Downs ranch to meet Arian Wallach, a conservationist who thinks there is too much killing in conservation. Wallach has come to this massive 888-square-mile ranch because it is one of the few places in Australia where people aren’t actively killing wild animals. Tough, outback Herefords share the landscape with kangaroos, wild horses, wild donkeys, camels, emus, cats, foxes, native rodents, dingoes, and very large antediluvian-looking reptiles called perenties." Read on

4th June 2018Today in Yale Environment 360 Do Conservation Strategies Need to Be More Compassionate?"Some scientists and ethicists are criticizing traditional conservation strategies, which they say focus on saving valued species while discounting the lives of less charismatic animals. Will these advocates of “compassionate conservation” point the way to new approaches, or are they simply being naïve?" Read on

1st May 2018Summoning Compassion to Address the Challenges of Conservation"Conservation of species must be guided by compassion for individual sentient animals". New essay by Dr Arian Wallach (Dingo for Biodiversity Project) and other members of the UTS Centre for Compassionate Conservation, just published in the prestigious journal Conservation Biology, highlights how protection of dingoes makes for a more compassionate conservation. Read on(Photography by Jennifer Parkhurst)

15th April 2018Invisible Megafauna"A significant proportion of Earth’s wildlife has been erased, not from the world, but from our collective depiction of nature. Even the most noticeable animals, terrestrial herbivorous megafauna weighing 100–4,000 kg, have been made nominally invisible. Wildlife outside native ranges are conspicuously missing from conservation data sets, distribution maps, population estimates, and conservation statuses". New essay by Dr Arian Wallach (Dingo for Biodiversity Project) and colleagues published in Conservation Biology. Read on

31st October 2017Through The Prism of the Dingo​"When a dingo looks in my eyes I don't think they see an invasive species". Dr Arian Wallach, co-founder of the Dingo for Biodiversity Project, in conversation with Natasha Milne on My Home Planet Podcast about what dingoes can teach us about conservation and our place in the world. Listen here

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2nd October 2017From feral camels to 'cocaine hippos'New article in The Conversation explains why we should rethink introduced species. "Visions of protected dingoes hunting introduced donkeys and Sambar deer in Australia, or protected wolves hunting introduced Oryx and horses in the American West, can give us a new perspective on conserving both native and introduced species. Nature doesn’t stand still. Dispensing with visions of historic wilderness, and the associated brutal measures usually applied to enforce those ideals, and focusing on the wilderness that exists is both pragmatic and optimistic." Read on